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This is what one of you, Lovvimage, posted as a comment to my blog yesterday. A very good comment, and a totally true statement. A concept that may be applied to all we’ve going through right now.

The youth unemployment rate hit 37.1%, and the young are not asking for money any longer, but for a job in order to have a future and this future – the source of fear is in the future, wrote Kundera – terrorizes them, so they often feel obliged to take up jobs they don’t like or to withdraw into their own world.

Politicians are so scared to lose that they are already shouting they have won to encourage themselves and the voters who are in turn scared because they have no idea which is the frying pan and which is the fire.

TV hosts are scared to lose their viewers and consequently they run scary shows. The newspapers are scared to lose the advertisers and settle for all kinds of requests.

Fear generates insecurity, uncertainty. We fear what we don’t know. And out of fear we often make the wrong choices and fear makes us weak.

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself", claimed Franklin D. Roosevelt. Although having fear is only human and often makes us more real and generous. Yet this is a healthy kind of fear, because is a fear we handle with our sensitiveness, and also makes us more humble.

Fear must not paralyze us, must not stop us, and most of all must not prevent us from believing and creating and being free from those who scare us. Fear generates envy and, as a consequence, suffering.

When we are young our fears are destined to vanish with time, but later we are seized by other types of fear. We need to learn how to live with fear, how to stop being scared by it, and face it: "Fear created gods, boldness created kings." (P.J de Crébillon)